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starring: Louis B. Mayer See Larger Image List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.49 You Save: $2.46 (10%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $8.99 Third Party New Price: $6.98 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780767082754 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 0767082753 Label: A&E Home Video Manufacturer: A&E Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: A&E Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 26, 2005 Running Time: 50 minutes Sales Rank: 72964 Studio: A&E Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 2005 Related Items: Hollywood: An Empire of Their Own (A&E DVD Archives) Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul 20th Century Fox - The First 50 Years Goldwyn - The Man and His Movies The Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman see more Editorial Review: Description: The movie mogul Louis B. Mayer emigrated as a child with his parents from Russia. He began his road to success when he purchased a house, refurbished it as a nickelodeon, and opened one of the earliest custom-designed cinemas. He established theaters throughout New England, which led him to Metro Films and the formation of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924. He helped create the Hollywood star system and hatched the idea for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and his successes included The Big Parade, Ben-Hur, Grand Hotel, Dinner at Eight, the Andy Hardy series, and countless others. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - One of Hollywood's founders. Here was a man who knew and understood just what people wanted to seee on the screen. They wanted to be taken from the problems of their lives and lifted into another world. A world of fantasy and make believe where the guy always gets the girl and the good guy always wins. He was also a hard businessman but pretended not to be. Perhaps one of the saddest things in his life was that he didn't stand up to the "anti communist purges" and support people like the those who were blacklisted just because ... Read More Rating: - Behind an Old Hollywood Boss Whether in works about Judy Garland or Liz Taylor (and even in a song by the Pet Shop Boys), I've usually heard of Louis B. Mayer tangentially. Finally, there is a work that focuses upon him. This may be an important work for those fans of Old Hollywood to see. The narrator spoke quickly here. I wonder if this was a 60 minute work that they were forced to chop down to 50 minutes. Because most of Mayer's peers are dead, mostly biographers spoke in this documentary. The exception was ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: Documentary - Genres - DVD - Video - General Television - Genres - DVD - Video - General A&E Home Video - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - All A&E Titles Biography - A&E Home Video - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - All Titles Biography - A&E Home Video - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - Artists & Authors